It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]
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Friday CIF State Football Finals
San Diego Lincoln makes it two CIF D1-AA state titles in three seasons with 28-26 victory over Pittsburg. We also have what we saw in the CIF D2-AA state championship win by Grant of Sacramento over Pacifica of Oxnard. Others winners were Frontier of Bakersfield and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma at Long Beach […]
All-State Football Nominees (NorCal)
We begin the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is the first of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are from the CIF sections in Northern California (except the Central Section). The Central, LA City & San Diego […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
Northern California teams will be trying to break precedent of playing poorly in games played at Saddleback College. We have two of the five coming down, however, getting a win. In games played at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium, almost all of the NorCal teams once again are coming in […]
1950s All-State Football Added
All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1950 season with the 1950s teams just added based on research. Earlier this year, we added the 1970s and 1960s. Similar to the newer decades and the teams we’ve picked in real time since 1979-80, many of the players are future NFL […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
It’s our first set of honorees this season for boys and girls basketball. If you didn’t know, it’s the same NorCal/SoCal designations as in past years but all four players also are now considered State Players of the Week. We begin with stops in La Crescenta and San Jose for the boys and then head […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s the last week of the 2024 season and we have CIF state championships this weekend between No. 1 and No. 4 in the Open Division, No. 7 and No. 9 in D1-AA, No. 15 and No. 20 in D1-A and No. 21 and No. 24 in D2-AA. The likelihood is that CIF Southern Section...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group starts out this week with St. Francis of Mountain View and continues to new No. 50 Beaumont. Clovis North gets a bump due to Central of Fresno’s success and Twelve Bridges also moves up two more spots. There are a number of CIF Southern Section D2 playoff teams that will all receive final...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These are the first rankings for the 2024-25 regular season. The top nine remain the same from the preseason. Redondo Union moves into the Top 10 with three of the top four clubs winning games at the Take Flight Challenge that the Sea Hawks hosted over the weekend. There’s only one loss among the top...
Milestone Win, Mitty Title at Sweet 16
State preseason No. 2 Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) headed down to San Diego for the annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 tourney and came back with an impressive title. The big story of the event on Friday night was the host school’s head coach becoming the winningest head coach in CIF San Diego Section […]
